| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | A Thrush in the Moonlight | | By Witter Bynner |
| | From “Presences”
IN came the moon and covered me with wonder, | |
| Touched me and was near me, and made me very still. | |
| In came a rush of song, raining as from thunder, | |
| Pouring importunate on my window-sill. | |
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| I lowered my head, I hid my head, I would not see nor hear— | 5 |
| The bird-song had stricken me, had brought the moon too near. | |
| But when I dared to lift my head, night began to fill | |
| With singing in the darkness. And then the thrush grew still. | |
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| And the moon came in, and silence, on my window-sill. | | | | |
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